re: #2 Targetpractice

From downstairs:

Oh, for fuck’s sake, just say you’re scared of getting a whiny tweet from the overgrown manchild in the White House while he figures out how he can fuck with you via the DOJ. I guess with Kirby, Lee, and Ditko dead, Marvel’s just decided to rewrite their origins from “Comic book company that takes on the status quo” to “Comic book company that was always cool with authority!”

I don’t think they would have thought twice about this if Ditko were the only survivor of the Timely Comics era, nor would he have likely had a problem with it, since the man spent his last 45 years as a Randroid!

Now, either of the others surviving would prolly have at least caused them to softpedal some of the actions that they’re taking because they obviously expect to be named the monopoly state publisher for graphically-enhanced fiction.

Personally, I think that’s one of the stupidest ideas they’ve ever had, as a white-supremacist regime is more likely to try to suppress the entire comic/ graphic-novel/ webcomic sector, due to it being “entartete Kunst by virtue of its very Semitic origins,” but then quislings and collaborateurs have historically been even dumber than actual native-born rank-and-file fascists, and now that I think about it the existence, even if it’s now in the past tense, of Jack Chick may leave the talibangelicals thinking there’s a way to sanitise and weaponise comics.